Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
MANUFACTURERS.
Infan. Industries, in the Great
Railroad Center, Now in
Operation
THE BEST DISTRIBUTING POINT IN
TEXAS PI I'll ITS IMMENSE SCOPE
or TRIBUTARY COUNTRY.
,7anv Railroads Stretching in ali Direction
and tns Natural advantages for
. Manufacturing City.

Manufacturing City.
The -ulnirg Of raw material into man
Ufsclurgs is yet q problem in Fort
Wor,a. despite TIE unrvaled advan-
tsges % the city as . distributing point.
This IS principally due to the fact that
4 the business men Of the place have given
hill little attention TO manufactures.
Most ii -lgm started with small means,
ard tla advantages OF speculation in
land. cattle and Otaer securities engroSSeG
4 their attention because they were more
profitable. Bu- conditions are changing;
the influx of : large foreign immigration,
the increased demand and close Competi-
ti0a are rapidly forcing the question OF
manufactures on the Ctutars of trade in
Texas ii is coming, and the vast re-
sources of the state with its untold
wealth Of raw material and varied
products are certain to develop it into
0ua IL the leading manufacturing states
Of Tie UGi0u. This viii follow accord
m- to tle law u cause aud effect It's
immense .rea and the millions of people
10 occupy this ares WIN force capital TO
i become ycly Interested in
ALL MINDS OF MANUFACTURERS.
The cotton that can easily be raised in
Texas would supply most of the present
Gemal The sugar belt can produce
i SUGAR enough for the use OF the present
wants IF the world. Texas ranks first
among the states in cattle and cotton;
! second IN sugar. These great staples
Of hides, cotton aud sugar are yet mostly
manufactured out Of the state, the raw
material beng shipped 10 eastern states
8ad me increased value put thereon by
foreign manufactures. This probably
viii not be wholly changed for many
years, but year by year the percentage of
TsW material shipped from the state
grows less and less. These conditions
viii eventually cause the state to become
manufacturing state and millions of
! capital viii ind Investment in manu-
factories. This brings as to d desCrlp-
ton of the advantages and facilities Of
t5ged by Fort Worth TO capital
SEEKING INVESTMENT
4 in tle manufacturing interests Of Texas.
Take glauCe at the map on the front
page. E0u Will there see nine outlets by
AL, stretching in every direction. They
pierce eYerv section Of the state, and Fort
Worth is the only city in Texas that is 3
terminus Of ali the railway corporations
H operating largely in the state. 1t was
WistOm's foresight mat caused the braiaY
Il business men OF Fort Worth to turn their
attention TO building railroads in the
early history Of the city, thereby making
Il the great point for distribution of
tTs-l2r products and merchandise. They
Knew ard reasoned well that railroads
would bring manufactures in due course
Of time, and while other cities and towns
were striving 10 start infant manufsctuT-
Ing Industries, they were adding railroad
St.e- IailrOad To the iron network stretch
ins from the city. The result is that
now, when eastern capital is beginning
10 ice Itself from the prejudiCes of the
past and seek profitable Investment in
II southern manufactures, Fort Worth can
not fail to show the best distributing
n Aclties in Texas.
To the east stretches the Texas and
Il 5tcltl, passing through the counties of
D4..as, Kaufman, VanIandt, Rains,
Wood, Upsher, Gregg and Harrison, and
H tleu l0rtheastWaruiy through Marion,
lass ami Bowie This road passes the
Giles and towns of Dallas, Terrell,
1 Aleols Longview, Marshall, Jefferson
/ snd TeXarkGua, besides many small
owls AMI stations. The pine forests OF
EASTERN Texas border this road for many
l-eSr and it passes through
a. agricultural section unsurpassed IN
~ state. The pineries are inexhausti-
s.t almost in their supply of as fine lum-
VI IS can De found on the globe.
N 10 the southeast extends the Fort
Il worth and New Orleans Railway connec-
WITH the Houston and Texas Central
4 ne Huntington system at WaXabschie |
Ellis county. The road is said to be |
STGaed and operated by q syndicate with
A huntington at its head. This brings |
H. merchants Rnd manufacturers of Fort |
HivFll IN active competition with other |
rs who cater for the trade of the en- |
~5 section pierced by the great Hunt |
,s.on system, which extends north and |
,.Sl with radiating branches through |
center OF the state, and as rich an |
Ts'Iclltural region as there is in the |
Directly south extends the south
H. arm OF the Missouri Pacific |
~ Hay, passing through the rich coun-
~ o. Tarrant, Johnson, Hill, McLennan,
snt' williamson, Travis, Hays, Comal
+. blAar, and by connection on to !
-, On the Rio Grande. The princi-
~ ~ cities and towns on this line are AL
~ AGO. q, Hlllsboro, Waco, Temple, Tay
IT, ny hound Rock, Austin and San Antonio,
80 L passes through the rich farming
81 Of the state.
Ssfalleling the Missouri Pacific is the
Y, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway,
sing he same counties with the addi-
= of Bosque to Temple junction. from
ssAici it verges southeast on its way to
faSveston. The principal cities and towns
2 the route are Cleburne, Morgan,
Ileridian, McGregor, Temple, Cameron,
Milan. Caldwell, Somerville, Brennan,
junction and Galveston. a